Danum Valley’s Lost World of Riches

Danum Valley’s Lost World of Riches

The Danum Valley in Sabah is a world-renowned biodiversity hotspot, home to Bornean orangutans, pygmy elephants, sun bears, hornbills and myriad other iconic local species. But it turns out that this famed conservation area in the Ulu Segama Forest Reserve has even more species than previously thought. And some of…

Borneo remains a Hot Spot for the exotic meat Trade

Borneo remains a Hot Spot for the exotic meat Trade

All right, let’s be frank: it’s often locals (not all of them, to be sure, but quite a few) who stand in the way of wildlife conservation in Borneo. For quite some time, officials in Sarawak and Sabah have been waging a battle, with varying degrees of success, against poachers,…